Terms to know:
Inaugurate – to be sworn in as president
Cabinet –departments to help the president
Tariff – tax on imported goods
Neutral – not siding with one country or the other
Foreign policy – relations with the governments of other countries
States’ rights – theory led by Jefferson and Madison that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
U.S. starts in debt –$52 million
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
pay off all war debts (France, Netherlands, Spain)
raise government revenues
create a national bank
Washington’s cabinet-
Secretary of War
Secretary of State
Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General
There are now about 17 members of the cabinet.
Supreme Court – 1789 Federal Judiciary Act
Gave S.C. 6 members Chief Justice and five associates
Now: 9
First political parties:
Federalists - believed in a strong national government
Democratic-Republicans - wanted limited national government
Whiskey Rebellion – W PA
Farmers staged rebellion against tax on whiskey
Washington sent the army to squash rebellion.
Gave Federal Govt. more clout
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Washington believed peace = prosperity
British still held forts N of the Ohio River – violation of Treaty of Paris
Washington sent troops to Ohio valley
Natives against US
NW Territory – US defeated Shawnee, Ottawa and Chippewa – British didn’t help natives
Site covered in trees that had fallen during a storm
12 tribes signed Treaty of Greenville – 1795
They agreed to cede (surrender) much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the US government.
French Revolution – 1789
US remained neutral
French began seizing US ships (300 in 1797)
Ambassadors offered a bribe by French Agents (later known as XY and Z)
Give France 10 million and pay minister a bribe of $250,000
Known XYZ Affair
US said no, put more money into defense
1796 - John Adams elected.
Alien and Sedition Acts targeted aliens.
Said you had to live in US for 14 years before coming a citizen.
Outlawed saying or writing anything harmful about the government.
Democratic-Republicans did not like this. Said it went against the Constitution.
Theory of states rights was developed - states had the right to judge when the federal govt. had passed an
unconstitutional law.
Terms to know:
Inaugurate – to be sworn in as president
Cabinet –departments to help the president
Tariff – tax on imported goods
Neutral – not siding with one country or the other
Foreign policy – relations with the governments of other countries
States’ rights – theory led by Jefferson and Madison that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
U.S. starts in debt –$52 million
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
- pay off all war debts (France, Netherlands, Spain)
- raise government revenues
- create a national bank
Washington’s cabinet-Secretary of War
Secretary of State
Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General
There are now about 17 members of the cabinet.
Supreme Court – 1789 Federal Judiciary Act
Gave S.C. 6 members Chief Justice and five associates
Now: 9
First political parties:
Federalists - believed in a strong national government
Democratic-Republicans - wanted limited national government
Whiskey Rebellion – W PA
Farmers staged rebellion against tax on whiskey
Washington sent the army to squash rebellion.
Gave Federal Govt. more clout
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Washington believed peace = prosperity
British still held forts N of the Ohio River – violation of Treaty of Paris
Washington sent troops to Ohio valley
Natives against US
NW Territory – US defeated Shawnee, Ottawa and Chippewa – British didn’t help natives
Site covered in trees that had fallen during a storm
12 tribes signed Treaty of Greenville – 1795
They agreed to cede (surrender) much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the US government.
French Revolution – 1789
US remained neutral
French began seizing US ships (300 in 1797)
Ambassadors offered a bribe by French Agents (later known as XY and Z)
Give France 10 million and pay minister a bribe of $250,000
Known XYZ Affair
US said no, put more money into defense
1796 - John Adams elected.
Alien and Sedition Acts targeted aliens.
Said you had to live in US for 14 years before coming a citizen.
Outlawed saying or writing anything harmful about the government.
Democratic-Republicans did not like this. Said it went against the Constitution.
Theory of states rights was developed - states had the right to judge when the federal govt. had passed an
unconstitutional law.